August 9, 2013. The seventh stage of the Russian Shooting Cup, with prizes dedicated to the memory of A.I. Brizhan, was coordinated at the shooting range of Sinara Sports Club; the club was founded by Sinara Pipe Plant (SinTZ), a member of Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK), SinTZ press service reports. The clay pigeon shooting competition was held at Sinara Club for the first time in 2011; last year, the contest was given the Russian Cup status. The championship was set up by Sinara Pipe Plant in memory of Anatoly I. Brizhan, who was head of Sinara Pipe Plant for more than 25 years and founded

August 9, 2013. Sverdlovsk Region public prosecution authorities for the environment conducted a scheduled inspection of Kamensk-Uralsky Metallurgical Plant (KUMZ) and detected some grave violations of the law, the press service for Ural Federal District division of the General Prosecutor's Office reports. The inspection revealed that the plant, which is using the local water resources, has been dumping manufacturing water into the River Iset and Volkovskoye Reservoir; now the amount of pollutants dumped actually exceeds the legal limits. A number of lab tests showed that the maximum

August 9, 2013. 921 instances of violating the Russian Federation phyto-sanitary requirements were revealed at Koltsovo Airports checkpoint in July 2013, Sverdlovsk Region division of Rosselkhoznadzor (the state agricultural watchdog)'s press service reports. 1,850 kg of regulated products were confiscated from passengers' luggage and carry-on luggage at Koltsovo Airport's state border checkpoint in the course of phyto-sanitary inspections between July 1 and August 4, 2013. 1,081 kg of restricted goods were brought to Yekaterinburg from Tajikistan, 614 kg were brought from

August 9, 2013. SKB-Bank's own money order system called beGOm keeps expanding. The service was recently made available at 150 offices of Eskhata Bank located in some 20 cities and towns of Tajikistan, the bank's press officer says. Customers can now benefit from BeGOm services at 489 branches of various Kyrgyzstan- and Tajikistan- based banks. Last year, Bakai Bank and Aiyl Bank from Kyrgyzstan joined the system, and Eskhata Bank from Tajikistan followed suit in March 2013; in April, beGOm was introduced at Kyrgyzstan-based EcoIslamicBank. What makes beGOm money orders so

August 9, 2013. The amount of apartments for sale on Yekaterinburg existing homes market has dropped by 4% since the beginning of the summer and reached 8,700 to 9,200 apartments, Ural Chamber of Real Estate's analytical research says. At the same time, the current supply is actually 29% bigger than at the start of 2013. Existing homes prices rose by 0.4% over the last four weeks. The only exception was the city's fifth most expensive district, where prices declined by 1.5% and came to 51,748 RUR per sq m. The fluctuations stayed within 1% range, which means the market has retained